Macrium Reflect is a powerful disk imaging and backup tool for Windows, developed by Paramount Software (Macrium Software) from United Kingdom in 2006. It generates disk images and file backup archives by utilizing Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service, which ensures data accuracy at a specific point in time.

For people engaged in computer repair or system maintenance, a bootable Windows PE system is must-have. For them, using tools to slim and customize the original OS setup ISO as needed is the best option. And for those users who just occasionally need to use the Windows PE system to save data, detect hardware, install system, etc., a ready-made PE is enough for them. If you feel that many PEs are too bloated or overqualified, then Win10 Tiny PE may be what you need.

Hiren's BootCD (HBCD for short) is a well-known, very popular and reliable bootable CD-ROM with a full set of commonly-used Windows and DOS system maintenance tools (only including free and legal software). But it has stopped updating since 2012. Hiren's BootCD PE is one of its enhanced PE edition developed by fans users, which also can be seen as its an unofficial successor.

For privacy protection and data security purposes, it is very necessary to set a login password for the Windows user in use in many environments (especially the public places). But sometimes, we may forget our login password for those computers we don't use very often, or remember the wrong password, and fail to log in. This case, reinstalling the operating system is a inadvisable bad plan; and taking brute-force password cracking is extremely inefficient. Therefore, clearing the original user password has always been the first choice - also the easiest and most efficient way.

Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) means lightweight versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems that allow you to boot from DVD, USB or over network. This is a collection post for Windows PE assembly (Windows 7 PE, Windows 8 PE, Windows 8.1 PE, and Windows 10 PE) made by the famous reverse engineer Ratiborus from a very popular Russian computer forum Ru.Board. They will be updated as new utilities or drivers are added.